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Lecturer(s)
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Fišerová Michaela, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction 2. Basic aesthetic concepts: beautifiul, ugly, sublime 3. Artistic, non-artistic and natural aesthetics 4. Aesthetics of temporality: event and singularity 5. Aesthetics of stylisation: pattern and order 6. Aesthetics of affectivity: taste and pathos 7. Aesthetics of genre: comic and tragic 8. Psychoanalytic aesthetics and unconscious 9. Vitalist aesthetics and memory 10. Phenomenological aesthetics and corporeality 11. Analytic aesthetics and language 12. Cognitive aestetics and emotions 13. Environmental aestetics and nature 14. Conclusive notes and discussion
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The subject's goal is to introduce the aims and methods of applied reaserach in the area of systematic philosophy and aesthetics specialized in image and imagination. The course is composed of a series of lectures in applied ethics and aesthetics. Each lecture introduces the main aesthetic problems, intellectual movements and conceptions of chosen philosophers in the context of historical background.
The student will get orientation in the Western philosophical understanding of concepts of the image, imagination, picture, gaze, visuality. Via reading of a representative selection of texts from the field of aesthetics, the student will see mutual codependence in contrast definiotions of these concepts. Based on comparison of individual texts, the student will uncover various philosophical intentions and presuppositions that condition the social determination of imagination. The student will understand historical evolution of the Western philosophical tradition of thinking of imagination in various aesthetic contexts.
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Prerequisites
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reading in Czech and English
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Each student prepares a 5 pages long seminar work, which includes their explanation of a chosen topic in related ethical contexts. Each seminar work will be presented in corresponding seminar lesson. The presentation is followed by collective discussion with teacher and students. Final oral examination is based on comparison of two texts from the recommended specialized aesthetic bibliography.
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Recommended literature
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